Everything is a remix, Raiders of the Lost Ark edition

"Shot-by-shot comparison of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' vs. scenes from 30 different adventure films made between 1919-1973." Via these sites.

Link roundup

1. Lifehacker says Waze is the best turn by turn navigator for Android and iOS (and free).

2. The new media tools that allowed Martin Luther's message to spread virally. Via.

3. Tips for hacking Scrabble.

4. The beginning of a terrific, long article about a very small town pharmacist:

In the southwestern corner of Colorado, where the Uncompahgre Plateau descends through spruce forest and scrubland toward the Utah border, there is a region of more than four thousand square miles which has no hospitals, no department stores, and only one pharmacy. The pharmacist is Don Colcord, who lives in the town of Nucla. More than a century ago, Nucla was founded by idealists who hoped their community would become the “center of Socialistic government for the world.” But these days it feels like the edge of the earth. Highway 97 dead-ends at the top of Main Street; the population is around seven hundred and falling. The nearest traffic light is an hour and a half away. When old ranching couples drive their pickups into Nucla, the wives leave the passenger’s side empty and sit in the middle of the front seat, close enough to touch their husbands. It’s as if something about the landscape—those endless hills, that vacant sky—makes a person appreciate the intimacy of a Ford F-150 cab.

5. How to turn Christmas ornaments into hot air balloons.

6. I haven't watched it yet, but Mr. Plinkett reviewed Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. (Presumably filled with very dark humor.)

Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods

"Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods was an early version of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull written by Frank Darabont. It's not clear how many different drafts Darabont did write but it seems that George Lucas read two or three versions of the script before finally rejecting it in 2004. In an interview with MTV, Darabont said that this rejection represented the loss of a entire year of his work."

Various download links for the script in this thread.

This week's Threadless t-shirts

Three of this week's new Threadless t-shirts:



The Three Trials by Enrique Cabeza Mogollo.




Eye See What You Did There by Jonah Block.




Diamonds Are Forever by Steve Wierth.

Documentary on the making of Raiders of the Lost Ark

Part one of a fanmade documentary by Jambe Davdar on Indiana Jones. Well-edited, and full of fascinating facts:



He also created a two-hour video on Star Wars:

Costume roundup

Wampa pug. Via.



Halloween at Laika gallery.



Melting face from Raiders of the Lost Ark.




Samurai Batman and aeronaut from a Halloween contest (you can vote for them at the links). Batman is Dave Johnson.



Wayne and Garth.

*See more Halloween costumes here.

A little Star Wars in the Indiana Jones movies

Club Obi Wan and droid hieroglyphics in the Indiana Jones movies. Via.

*Find Star Wars Happy Meal and cereal toys at eBay.

Plush Indiana Jones

Plush Indiana Jones by miss coffee, who is accepting commissions as described here.

*Buy Indiana Jones Lego minifigures at eBay.

Tom Selleck's screentest as Indiana Jones

Here's Tom Selleck and Sean Young performing the scene when Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood are reunited in Marion's bar. Perfect material for Sean Hartter's alternate movie poster series. Via.

Relics based on Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

Relics based on Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. The idol is on sale here. Via.

Illustration roundup

Green Lantern #57 cover. Via.




One of several ads for DirecTV HD.




Otis Frampton was commissioned to create an original Indiana Jones storyline and has started posting some rough illustrations.




Seven samurai poster by David O'Daniel on sale here.




He-Man wallpaper by Ewen Stenhouse.

Illustration roundup

Nightrunner by Yasmin Liang.



Warrior queen and catbeast by Kali Ciesemier.



Supergirl and Batmite by Colleen Coover.



Superman gets a tattoo by Shannon Ritchie and Edwin Vazquez.



Charlie Sheen meltdown-themed wallpaper.




Mola Ram meets Link by Dan Hipp.

*Buy Bat-Mite toys at eBay.

New Raiders of the Lost Ark t-shirt

Last Exit to Nowhere's latest t-shirt honors the Bantu Wind - - the fictional tramp steamer featured in the film Raiders of the Lost Ark.

*Buy Raiders of the Lost Ark posters at eBay.

Ark of the Covenant cake; Ray Lewis battling a stallion cake

Two cakes by Charm City Cakes:



Ark of the Covenant cake. You can see a great photo gallery of the wedding here.




Ray Lewis battling a stallion cake by Mary Lewis.

She also created a Ray Lewis jack-o'-lantern:



And finally, the best of the Old Spice commercials, where Ray Lewis equates using Old Spice Swagger to getting to fly on a rocket-powered raven into space:






*Buy Ray Lewis toys at eBay.

Artisanal Chewing Gum Factory (and so much more)

Alas, it's too late to participate in Bompas & Parr's Artisanal Chewing Gum Factory:

Each visitor will be able to choose and combine 200 familiar and unusual flavours including iris, Hendricks Gin and tonic, curry and beer yeast. In total 40,000 flavour combinations are possible.

Truly outlandish combinations were possible. At least you can participate vicariously by watching the video below:









Coming next month is another event that sounds like great fun - - Taste O Rama at the Harley Gallery:

Coming soon to the Harley Gallery, Bompas & Parr will show Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in Welbeck Abbey's Titchfield Library. Guests will be taken on a trip through the secretive underground rooms at Welbeck before watching the film presented in Taste 'o' Rama - with spectators able to enjoy key moments of the movie with their mouths.

(Monkey brain's anyone?)



You can read about Bompas and Parr's previous culinary adventures at their site, including the Sugar Cave:



Emperor Vespasian's notorious Shield of Minerva dish:



The Ziggurat of Flavour, Occult Jam ("a small triumph over mortality"), Surreal House Dinner, and more. Via these sites.

*Buy Jelly with Bompas and Parr at Amazon.